Stitch Regulator, Opinions Please
#1
Stitch Regulator, Opinions Please
I would love to hear opinions from members who have a stitch regulator on their DSM. I'm trying to decide if I would be happy with one instead of purchasing a mid-arm such as a Sweet Sixteen. I enjoy quilting on my DSM but would enjoy it even more if all of my stitches were even. Thanks!
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Cedar Falls, IA
Posts: 927
I have a BSR on my 440 also. It gave me confidence to start FMQ, but I outgrew it in a few months. It is just too limiting. Also, the reason to get a quilting machine isn't the stitch regulation but the ease of quilt manipulation. I can do quilts so much easier on my S16 than I ever could using the small throat of the 440. I didn't get a stitch regulator on my S16 either. My quilting is not perfect, but practice makes it plenty good enough.
PS: anyone want to buy a 440 BSR?
Pam
PS: anyone want to buy a 440 BSR?
Pam
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: ontario,canada
Posts: 474
I got one with my sweet16. It does stitch such nice perfect stitches. I just never use it.
My stitches are a long way from perfect but they keep getting better and I am not finicky. I keep telling myself that I am sure someday I will need it for something. I thought that I would need it for ruler work, nope, thread painting, nope, tiny pebbles, nope. I am keeping it in the drawer by machine for when I figure out just what it is that I need it for.
My stitches are a long way from perfect but they keep getting better and I am not finicky. I keep telling myself that I am sure someday I will need it for something. I thought that I would need it for ruler work, nope, thread painting, nope, tiny pebbles, nope. I am keeping it in the drawer by machine for when I figure out just what it is that I need it for.
#6
Power Poster
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
I never had a BSR on my Bernina and found out I really didn't need it. If you can find a speed and then hit that speed again and move the fabric at the same rate the machine would feed, then you have perfect FMQ stitches.
#8
I would love to hear opinions from members who have a stitch regulator on their DSM. I'm trying to decide if I would be happy with one instead of purchasing a mid-arm such as a Sweet Sixteen. I enjoy quilting on my DSM but would enjoy it even more if all of my stitches were even. Thanks!
#9
I got one with my sweet16. It does stitch such nice perfect stitches. I just never use it.
My stitches are a long way from perfect but they keep getting better and I am not finicky. I keep telling myself that I am sure someday I will need it for something. I thought that I would need it for ruler work, nope, thread painting, nope, tiny pebbles, nope. I am keeping it in the drawer by machine for when I figure out just what it is that I need it for.
My stitches are a long way from perfect but they keep getting better and I am not finicky. I keep telling myself that I am sure someday I will need it for something. I thought that I would need it for ruler work, nope, thread painting, nope, tiny pebbles, nope. I am keeping it in the drawer by machine for when I figure out just what it is that I need it for.
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